noun
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(in imperial Russia) an edict of the tsar
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a rare word for edict
Etymology
Origin of ukase
1720–30; < French < Russian ukáz, Old Russian ukazŭ, noun derivative of ukazati to show, indicate, assign, command, equivalent to u- prefix + kazati to show, order
Example Sentences
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The restrictions that remain from that March 2020 ukase will wind down in February, at Garcetti’s request and with the council’s vote.
From Los Angeles Times
He then issued a ukase banning tweets promoting several rival social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon — the latter an increasingly popular refuge for Twitter users repelled by Musk’s management.
From Los Angeles Times
The first wave of rediscovery had ukases and prohibitions—Alec Wilder wrote off essentially all of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and almost everything self-consciously “jazzy” in Gershwin.
From The New Yorker
America’s healthcare system is shot through with limits on care, imposed not by government ukase but by private insurance companies and fundamental economics.
From Los Angeles Times
After a brief sitting this week, under Johnson’s ukase, Parliament was not scheduled to meet again until Oct.
From Washington Post
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